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Automotive
Aston Martin speeds ahead with Alias
The celebrated British car company streamlined its in-house design process with Autodesk software.
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Design and manufacture best-in-class cars and equipment with tools designed for automotive manufacturers and automotive suppliers
Workflow for automotive design and manufacturing
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Overview
Cope with increasing time and quality pressures, help avoid costly late charges, and manage external processes using car design software that has the tools you need. Use visualization and plastic part simulation to drive better design decisions upfront and throughout your projects.
Workflow
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Concept design
Better communicate and review your ideas and concepts in the early phases of the car design process with developed 2D sketches and 3D virtual models.
Create, visualize, and modify your concepts faster, and reduce the need for physical clay models with rapid, virtual clay modeling.
Improve collaboration among your team and make decisions faster with the ability to visualize and review 3D designs in real time.
Improve process efficiency when you develop concepts and sketches, design surfaces, and visualize concepts using 2D sketches or 3D animation tools.
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Design & styling
Move faster from modeling to decision making with efficient surface design, visualization, and 3D concept development.
Speed up decision making, iterate faster and more easily with the ability to quickly set up alternatives and scenes, and review detailed virtual designs.
Meet early demands with the ability to produce movie-quality, production-ready CGI and videos.
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Technical surfacing
Speed up the process of technical surface development and create production-ready surfaces from the design model that are ready for hand-off to engineering.
Better judge perceived quality without a physical model with the ability to review texture, color and trim, character lines, highlights, and illumination on your surfaces and designs.
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Sales and marketing, POS
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Product engineering
Become more efficient with design accelerators like frame and shaft generators, along with modules for sheet metal and plastic part design.
Easily set up and manage workgroup data, secure design data, and increase efficiency with multisite collaboration and access to enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
Easily use real-time visualization for engineering reviews such as perceived quality, light design, and gap analysis.
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Product simulation
Reduce costly tool changes with earlier understanding of plastic part behavior, including fill time predictions and surface defect alerts.
Reduce iteration cycles and predict alternative behavior to enable early changes in designs with upfront flow analysis.
Understand behavior and performance better and make earlier changes with upfront simulation of electromechanical or mechanical designs.
Use real-time visualization for simulation result reviews such as plastic parts quality and better visual review of CFD simulation results.
Set up and securely manage workgroup and simulation data with multisite collaboration and access to ERP systems.
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Production equipment design
Reduce costly prototypes with Digital Prototyping design of production equipment, and depend on routed systems for reliable designs.
Increase efficiency with built-in productivity tools and 2D design tools developed for mechanical design.
Design and maintain electrical wire diagrams for production equipment machinery in an efficient toolset that includes libraries and electrical logic.
Reduce iterations and costly tool changes with early prediction of production parameters such as fill times, and issues such as surface defects.
Increase efficiency with easy-to-set-up workgroup data management and multisite collaboration and access to ERP systems.
Set up PLM backbone to manage the processes in production equipment design, such as quality management and supplier collaboration.
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Factory planning
Automatically transfer 2D layouts to 3D visual layouts and use 3D layout tools with an extensive library and asset ecosystem via asset warehouse.
Design a building in 3D, and use a centralized information system for the entire process, from planning to building operation.
Easily set up and securely manage workgroup data management with multisite collaboration and access to ERP systems.
Easily set up PLM backbone to manage the processes in production planning, factory installation, project management, and external supplier collaboration.
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Documentation
Easily use tools for efficient development of 2D drawing-based documentation.
All products for automotive
Alias
Industrial design tools for conceptual design and surface modeling.
Simulation CFD
Fluid flow and thermal simulation tools.
Vault
Data management software for organizing, managing, and tracking data.
Factory Design Suite
Integrated 3D factory layout software for design and visualization.
Autodesk PLM 360
Cloud-based alternative to traditional product lifecycle management solutions.
Simulation Mechanical
Mechanical simulation tools.
VRED
Photorealistic 3D design rendering software.
Product Design Suite
3D design, visualization, and simulation tools for product creation.
Inventor Publisher
Technical documentation software for creating 2D and 3D documentation.
Simulation Moldflow
Plastic injection molding simulation software.
Industry trends and topics
Support for lightweight design and material substitution
Designing automobiles with greater fuel efficiency and a reduced CO2 footprint is a priority for today’s automotive manufacturers. Autodesk provides tools that support material substitution and help you simulate and optimize lightweight plastic parts. Stay in compliance with regulations and environmental standards with vehicle design software that helps you stay one step ahead.
Tools that help you meet your sustainability goals
Sustainability is an important factor in automobile manufacturing today. To help you meet your sustainability goals, Autodesk provides tools for upfront factory optimization, factory flow analysis, and workplace light simulation. Help reduce energy costs and water consumption, and help provide a better working environment for your team.
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What customers are saying
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Tesla Motors
This automotive manufacturer met timelines with quality designs using Autodesk car design software. The team created models using Autodesk® Alias® software for visualization and prototyping, smoothing the journey to 3D models.
Holden Special Vehicles
Vehicle design software helped this company speed product development. The team explored and reviewed design decisions without creating a physical prototype for each option to save time and stay on budget.
Primera Plastics
This automotive manufacturer used Autodesk® Simulation Moldflow® software to produce more accurate quotes. Creating quality injection mold designs prior to manufacturing improved quality and aesthetics for the product.
Mitsubishi Motors
This automotive manufacturer was able to swiftly determine the difference between 2D and 3D layouts and display large-scale assembly models, allowing the company to stake out a strong competitive position in the marketplace.
